Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:20 +0200 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: checkpatch WARNING: patch prefix 'b' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch |
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> Maybe something as simple as a comment in the checkpatch source > to say that such a file / directory can cause false positives?
I'd hope this error message would be clear enough, what do you think?
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3dfc471..19e4de7 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ sub process { if (!$file && $tree && $p1_prefix ne '' && -e "$root/$p1_prefix") { WARN("PATCH_PREFIX", - "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists, appears to be a -p0 patch\n"); + "patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists as file/directory. Make sure this isn't a -p0 patch\n"); } if ($realfile =~ m@^include/asm/@) { -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |